UN Women Supports the Council of Europe’s Convention Against Domestic Violence

Following a roundtable meeting at United Nations Headquarters, Maud de
Boer-Buquicchio, Deputy Secretary-General of the Council of Europe and
John Hendra, Deputy Executive Director of UN Women signed a Letter of
Intent to formalize future cooperation between the two entities.

At the roundtable Hendra reinforced the support of UN Women for what
he called the ”landmark” Convention on Preventing and Combating
Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, adopted by the Council
of Europe last year.